University of Bristol
project: Wars of Liberation, Wars of Decolonisation: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project
Grant Holder: Kent Fedorowich
The Rhodesian Army Archive project was set up by the University of the West of England, Bristol, in September 2006, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to catalogue the extensive collection of papers and other materials from the Rhodesian Army Archive, which is held by the Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol. The archive was deposited in uncatalogued boxes at the Museum. However, despite this richness of material, there was no way of locating specific documents, and no organising principle behind the boxes. [read more]
project: Penguin Archive Project
Grant Holder: Dr John Lyon
The Penguin Archive Project is a four-year project with an aim to produce an on-line descriptive catalogue of the Penguin Archive, which will be launched on the web in due course and will continue to expand as the project develops. The project will also pioneer research in the archive, particularly in the areas of modern poetry, Penguin 'Specials' and their socio-political impact, and Penguin translations of the classics. [read more]
project: An investigation into what constitutes a reproduction in the 20th Century, through the 19th Century collotype process
Grant Holder: Joanna Montgomery
This project challenged the notion of what constitutes a reproduction in the light of 21st Century digital technology and print output through an evaluation through visual and practical research into 19th Century photomechanical print processes, in particular the process of collotype. Whilst the contemporary half-tonal system is a commercially economical means of printing, the resulting images do not fully attain the same depth of colour or image clarity as those produced by either chemical photography or the screenless photomechanical printing processes in use at the end of the 19th century. [read more]
project: Capturing the past, preserving the future: digitisation of the national review of live art video collection
Grant Holder: Prof Simon Jones
The Capturing the Past, Preserving the Future project has the following aims: To preserve for posterity the unique research materials contained in the National Review of Live Art Video Archive by digitising and maintaining the entire collection; To create an interactive and searchable on-line catalogue, including selected copyright-cleared examples of its holdings; To promote the enhanced research facility amongst the UK higher education, national and international performance research and practitioner communities; Readiness for developing curated programmes. [read more]
project: In an arena including digital and traditional artists' publishing formats - what will be the canon for the artist's book in the 21st Century?
Grant Holder: Miss Sarah Bodman
This project investigated and discussed issues concerning the history and future of the artist’s book. Our aim was to extend and sustain critical debate of what constitutes an artist’s book in the 21st Century - in order to propose an inclusive structure for the academic study, artistic practice and historical appreciation of the artist’s book. All of the research outcomes, including the publication A Manifesto for the Book, audio and video files,interviews and case studies are downloadable from the project website.
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm [read more]
project: Metaphor in Creative Sign Language
Grant Holder: Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence
The proposed research project will investigate the metaphorical operations that contribute to the artistic effects of creative language in British Sign Language. The project aims to produce a large-scale corpus of signed poems and stories to be used in the analysis. The main research question will be: What are the unique features of metaphors in creative sign language? How do they manifest themselves in the visual-manual-spatial modality? [read more]
project: Expanded cinema and screen media (ExCiSM): interactive aesthetics for a multi-screen platform
Grant Holder: Professor Adams
The EXCiSM group is developing a research programme that redefines the sites and experience of cinema, drawing on high-quality audio-visual streaming technologies. In this project, a large, multi-screen environment {MSE} will allow the spectator to experience events that unfold across and between screens, with a spatialised (‘surround sound’) acoustic. The project demonstrator will allow explanation of cinematic conventions (narrative, cinematography, performance) in the MSE and evaluate reception. [read more]
project: 19th Century Pamphlets Online
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The aim of the project was to provide researchers, teachers and learners with online access to significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held within UK research libraries. The project drew on the pamphlet holdings of seven research libraries (Bristol, Durham, Liverpool, LSE, Manchester, Newcastle and UCL), choosing collections that focused on the political, social and economic issues of the day. [read more]
project: Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories
Grant Holder: Professor Robert Gildea
This is a study of militants, the networks they constructed and the trajectories they followed in Europe between 1965-75. It is a collective project, undertaken by 14 historians, 7 based in the UK, 7 outside. It is based on archival work and the collection of oral testimony from a sample of networks and activists involved in them in each country. [read more]
project: Stonehenge Riverside Project
Grant Holder: Prof M Parker Pearson
The Stonehenge Riverside Project was initiated in 2003 with the overall aim of better understanding Stonehenge within its changing monumental and natural landscape context, especially through investigation of the hypothesis that Stonehenge (in its Phase 3) formed one half of a larger complex as a stone circle associated with the dead, in contrast to a timber circle associated with the living at Durrington Walls.
After five years of field investigations (landscape survey, geophysics, earthwork survey, excavation) and re-appraisal of previous interventions within the Stonehenge landscape, the [read more]